You know the right has made a huge deal about the Spanish elections and that it was an 'appeasement' of the "terrarists".
Now I disagree with that assesment. The conservatives lost in Spain because they LIED plain and simple.
However the righteous right does have a point.
Once you pay the Danegeld you never get rid of the Dane
or in modern terms you cant appease your attacker. Give in to him once and he'll be back and he'll come back until you get the guts to tell him "Fuck OFF"
Case in point. LGF launches attack against DKos . Gets Kerry to drop him and get 4 Dem Candidates to drop their ads.
Did you think that would make the LGF teenagers happy?
Nope just made them get an inflated sense of their own stranght and importance. So like a high school bully the're back for more lunch money.
LGF is setting their guns against another"unpatriotic" site
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=10517_Not_Anti-War-_Just_on_the_Other_Side
http://www.nathannewman.org/log/
and do you think it'll stop there? They wont stop till they get kerry to dissassociate himself from his own blog.
I know alot of you disagreed with Kos's statement. I didnt but I still thought it a bit intemperate.
Nevertheless the issue was never whether Kos was right or wrong. the issue was whether Kos has the right to say what he thought and felt.
The with liberals is that we're worried about what peoples perception of us are and change to accomadete them. The LGF'uckers suffering as they do from
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
briefly
http://www.angelfire.com/ego/narcissism/
in depth
http://www.halcyon.com/jmashmun/npd/traits.html
Characteristics of Narcissistic Personality Disorder
A pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy which begins by early adulthood and is present in differing contexts within a person's life.
A narcissistic individual is grandiose in their sense of self-importance and exaggerates their achievements and talents. He expects to be recognized as superior without achieving any great accomplishments.
A narcissistic individual is preoccupied with fantasies of his brilliance as well as his unlimited success or power. He fantasizes about beauty or ideal love.
A narcissistic individual believes that he is "special" or "unique." He feels that he can only be understood by or should associate with other special or high status people.
A narcissistic individual requires excessive admiration and is on a constant search for admiration.
A narcissistic individual has a sense of entitlement. He has unreasonable expectations of favorable treatment and expect others to automatically comply with his wishes.
A narcissistic individual takes advantage of others to achieve his own ends and uses others without regards to the feelings of others.
A narcissistic individual lacks empathy and does not identify with the feelings or needs of others.
A narcissstic individual is envious of others and believes that others are envious of him.
A narcissistic individual shows arrogant or haughty behaviors or attitudes and does not care who he offends.
They dont care about what we think only that they are so important and powerful that we will change our actions to accomodate them
( Interestingly it also explains why they think wiping Fullujah of the map will make the Iraqis think like LGF'rs.)
Back to my main point. THe DEms, KERRY AND THE SANE BLOGOSPHERE has to dig in and NOT give in the LGF threats. or threats from any other site for that matter.
If Kerry starts pulling more more links and ads I can Gurantee he'll lose .Same if he tries to become Bush lite.
Why?
1.
because the so called moderates will see him giving in to Bush and LGF and conclude Bush and LGF must be right t, why else would Kerry agree with them (Shrub and LGF)
2. Becuase the left will just get pissed at Kerry and vote Nader, Kucinich (isnt he runnning as Natural Law candidate?) or stay home and sleep.
Coclusion appeasement doesnt work.
Kerry Dont appease the LGF terrorists.